Marek Napiórkowski

Marek Napiórkowski (born 27 October 1969 in Jelenia Góra) is a Polish jazz guitarist and a music compositor.

Music career

He cooperated with great names of jazz and pop music such as Pat Metheny,^[1] Richard Bona, Mino Cinelu, Marcus Miller, Angelique Kidjo, John Taylor, Dhafer Youssef, Gregoire Maret, Adam Holzman, Sugar Blue, Ivan Lins, Clarence Penn, Anna Maria Jopek, Tomasz Stańko, Leszek Możdżer, Hadrien Feraud, Dorota Miśkiewicz, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Urszula Dudziak, Ewa Bem, Klaus Doldinger (Passport), Janusz Muniak, Tomasz Szukalski, Krzysztof Ścierański, and Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski.

He has appeared on over 140 albums^[2] and toured around Europe, Canada, USA, Japan, Brasil, Mexico, Indonesia, China, Korea and Russia.

Back in 2002 he participated in Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek’s project called Upojenie (Nonesuch 2008) and also took part in two concerts following the release of the album. He has released four original albums. Three of them were nominated for the Polish music award Fryderyk^[3][4][5] in Jazz Album of the Year and Jazz Musician of the Year categories. 6th June 2005 was the year when NAP (Universal Music Poland)^[6] album was released featuring Leszek Możdżer, Anna Maria Jopek and Henryk Miśkiewicz. On 1st July 2007 the acoustic album Wolno (Universal Music Poland)^[7] was released, in co-operation with Mino Cinelu, Gregoire Maret, Anna Maria Jopek. The album reached gold status in Poland. Album firmed by Marek Napiórkowski Trio is called KonKubiNap (Universal Music Poland) and was recorded live with Robert Kubiszyn and Cezary Konrad. Album UP! (V Records 2013)^[8] was recorded with Clarence Penn, Adam Pierończyk, Krzysztof Herdzin, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Robert Kubiszyn and nine pieces symphonic musicians chamber band. In 2015 an album Celuloid with his friend from Jelenia Góra, guitarist Artur Lesicki was released (V Records).^[9] On the album duo recorded notable Polish film and TV series main themes (including music by Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Komeda or Andrzej Kurylewicz). The newest album Trójka Live (Polish Radio series "Live in Trójka, vol. 17")^[10] was released in 2016, October 14th. In a Jazz Top survey carried out among readers of Jazz Forum, Marek has been chosen as the Jazz Guitarist of the Year 2012-2015.^[11][12][13] Recently he has been touring with his projects, and with Anna Maria Jopek, Henryk Miśkiewicz and Dorota Miśkiewicz.

Solo albums

• 2005 - NAP
• 2007 - Wolno (Slowly/Freedom)
• 2011 - KonKubiNap (as Marek Napiórkowski Trio)
• 2013 - UP!
• 2015 - Celuloid (with Artur Lesicki)
• 2016 - Trójka Live (as Marek Napiórkowski Sextet)

As a member of a team

• 1997 - Funky Groove (Funky Groove)
• 2002 - Go to Chechua Mountain (Funky Groove)
• 2002 - Zatrzymaj się (Dorota Miśkiewicz Goes to Heaven)
• 2004 - Henryk Miśkiewicz Full Drive
• 2005 - Pod rzęsami (Dorota Miśkiewicz)
• 2006 - Live in Opole (Ścieranski-Napiórkowski-Jakubek-Dąbrówka)
• 2007 - Acoustic Room 47 (Various Artist)
• 2007 - Henryk Miśkiewicz Full Drive 2
• 2007 - Tak zwyczajny dzień (Karolina Kozak)
• 2008 - Caminho (Dorota Miśkiewicz)
• 2012 - ALE (Dorota Miśkiewicz)
• 2012 - Henryk Miśkiewicz Full Drive 3 feat. Michael 'Patches' Stewart

Albums with Anna Maria Jopek

• 1998 - Szeptem (Mercury/Polygram Poland)
• 1999 - Dzisiaj z Betleyem (Universal Music Poland)
• 2000 - Bosa (Universal Music Poland)
• 2002 - Nienasycenie (Universal Music Poland); Barefoot (Emarcy); Upojenie with Pat Metheny (Warner Music Poland)
• 2003 - Farat (Universal Music Poland; CD, DVD, Box CD/DVD + CD "Z pamięci")
• 2005 - Secret (Emarcy); Niebo (Universal Music Poland)
• 2007 - ID (Universal Music Poland/Emarcy)
• 2008 - JO & CO (Universal Music Poland; Dwa serduszka cztery oczy (Universal Music Poland; box 2CD+CD "Spoza")
• 2011 - Polanna (Universal Music Poland); Lustra (Universal Music Poland, box 3CD)

References

External links

• Official website